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1742 in Canada

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Events from the year 1742 in Canada.

Incumbents

  • French Monarch: Louis XV
  • British and Irish Monarch: George II

Governors

  • Governor General of New France: Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois
  • Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
  • Governor of Nova Scotia: Paul Mascarene
  • Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Henry Medley

Events

  • First scientific report on the North Pacific fur seal.
  • First Fort Paskoya built by La Vérendrye at Cedar Lake.

Births

  • Esteban José Martínez Fernández y Martínez de la Sierra, naval officer (died 1798)
  • Benjamin Frobisher, fur-trader (died 1787)

References

References

  1. Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
  2. (30 December 2015). "George I".
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